The Holocaust (1934-1945)

I would prefer to applaud the paper's stand on mental health improvement in our state. But I can't.

The state that promotes Virginia is for Lovers is ranked 42nd by Mental Health America. And a $200 million budgetary promise for 2021 is as good as any other political promise.

Let's acknowledge reality. A man died in prison from starvation. Universities are not proactive: they only react more effectively and efficiently to uncommon violence. The consequence of a student declaration of a mental illness is a dis-invitation from school for reasons of institutional...

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Re: "Responding to learning curve," April 20.
I would prefer to applaud the paper's stand on mental health improvement in our state. But I can't.
The state that promotes Virginia is for Lovers is ranked 42nd by Mental Health America....

Standing in an auditorium full of students and teachers on Jan. 31, Jay Ipson asked the crowd: "Can such a thing as the Holocaust happen in the United States?"
Ipson received a mixture of yes and no responses in scattered shouts and head shakes among the...

The first Jewish prayer book in Europe was assembled by Rabbi Simchah of Vitry in 11th century France. This remarkable compendium of liturgical traditions preserves the memory and moral message of our Jewish ancestors as they sought refuge in worship. The...

What if the outcome of World War II hinged not on the decisive battles of Allied and Axis forces, but on unseen forces much more powerful? If the mere possession of an object in the right (or wrong) leader's hands could predetermine the success of whole...

I trudged away from the German capital's Holocaust Memorial with damp eyes and an aching heart. For the first time, I had doubts about my solo trek through Europe to visit various World War II sites and monuments.
Why was I intentionally causing myself...

An Alaska Republican and most senior member of the U.S. House argued against gun control by wondering how many Jewish people "were put in the ovens" because they were not armed.
U.S. Rep.
Don Young
, who has a history of off-the-cuff remarks that can...

Israeli politicians accused Poland's prime minister of anti-Semitism Saturday for equating the Polish perpetrators in
the Holocaust
to its supposed "Jewish perpetrators," setting off a new chapter in an angry dispute over Poland's new bill...

Matylda Jonas-Kowalik has spent most of her 22 years secure in the belief that she would never know the discrimination, persecution or violence that killed or traumatized generations of Polish Jews before her. She once thought the biggest problem that...

Israeli politicians accused Poland's prime minister of anti-Semitism Saturday for equating the Polish perpetrators in the Holocaust to its supposed "Jewish perpetrators," setting off a new chapter in an angry dispute over Poland's new bill criminalizing...

A survivor of the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp praised Chancellor
Angela Merkel
's decision to open her country's doors to asylum seekers in 2015, telling lawmakers Wednesday at a special parliamentary session commemorating the victims of
the...

The man who federal authorities say threatened to kill CNN employees had declared in high school that he identified with Adolf Hitler and suggested "the Holocaust was exaggerated," according to a former classmate.
That description of Brandon...

The way John Oliver sees it, the moment was a no-brainer for President Donald Trump.
White nationalists, Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis had gathered to protest the removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia. The "Unite the Right"...

Pledging to confront anti-Semitism in all its forms and to "never be silent," President Donald Trump on Tuesday denounced as accomplices to "horrible evil" anyone who denies that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.
In a speech marking...

A new book that examines previously restricted files from the U.N. War Crimes Commission cites documents showing that Adolf Hitler had been indicted as a war criminal for actions by the Nazis during World War II before his death — contrary to longstanding...

Alec Baldwin was back as President Trump in "Saturday Night Live's" cold open, which included an appearance by host Jimmy Fallon as Trump advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The sketch opened with Baldwin sitting at a desk going over his list of...

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has apologized for making an "inappropriate and insensitive" comparison to the Holocaust in comments about Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons — remarks that drew instant rebuke from Jewish...

Nivea has pulled a deodorant ad that declared "White Is Purity" after people protested that the slogan is racist, and after others hijacked the ad's online campaign with comments about white supremacy.
The ad, which appeared in a Facebook post last week,...

He is a convicted Holocaust denier but also the patriarch of the party that could soon triumph in France's presidential election. These days, Jean-Marie Le Pen, now 88, struggles to walk. But his ideology is on the move: In a once unimaginable scenario, the National Front - the party he co-founded...

At the Boulevard, a popular pub in the Overschie neighborhood on the northern edge of Rotterdam, the regulars, all older white men, sat at the bar when I visited one late afternoon this month. Willem, a craggy, blue-eyed construction manager nursing a...

Four decades ago, a neo-Nazi group announced plans to march in Skokie, home to thousands of Holocaust survivors. The news set off a rhetorical firestorm that the Chicago Tribune dubbed the "Skokie swastika war."
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